Left-wing Workers explained

Left-wing Workers
Native Name:Pahempoolsed töölised ja kehvikud
Foundation:1932
Dissolved:1935
Successor:Workers' United Front
Ideology:Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Position:Far-left
Colours: Red
Country:Estonia

The Left-wing Workers (Estonian: Pahempoolsed töölised ja kehvikud) was a political party in Estonia.

History

The party was a front for the Communist Party,[1] which had used umbrella organisations to participate in politics since being banned in 1918.[2] In the 1932 elections it won five seats,[3] a decrease on the six seats the Communists had won in the 1929 elections running under the guise of the Estonian Workers' Party.[1]

Along with all others, the party was banned in 1935 following Konstantin Päts's self-coup.[4]

Notes and References

  1. [Dieter Nohlen]
  2. http://www.estonica.org/en/Communist_subversion_against_the_state_in_the_Republic_of_Estonia_in_the_nineteen-twenties_and_thirties/ Communist subversion against the state in the Republic of Estonia in the nineteen-twenties and thirties
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p586
  4. Vincent E McHale (1983) Political parties of Europe, Greenwood Press, p371